Indian Geography - Roadways

• 80% of Indian passenger traffic is through roadway
• 60% Goods transport by road
• 3rd largest road length in world: 22 million KM (1991).
• 40% road transport is though highways - National highways is 38000 Km

• States with maximum surface roads in descending order:

1. Maharashtra
2. Tamilnadu
3. Madhyapradesh

• Unsurface road descending order:

1. Orissa
2. Kerala
3. Uttar Pradesh

• Road length descending order:

1. Maharashtra
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Madhya Pradesh

• Average Road density descending order:

1. Goa
2. Punjab
3. Tamil Nadu

• Total number of national highways: 78
• Manali-Leh highway → Height 4270km→ highest road in the world

• Major National Highways:

1. NH1 - Delhi To Amristar
2. NH2 - Delhi to calcutta
3. NH3 - Agra to Mumbai
4. NH4-Thane to Chennai
5. NH5- East Coast Road
6. NH7 - Varanasi to kanyakumari
7. NH15 -Border Road
8. NH17 - West Coast Road 

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Geography – 9th Standard (Standard IX) – Lesson 1 highlights

My apologies for not having posted for long. This is my post on 9th Standard Geography. I have covered the major points that have potential to appear in TNPSC Question paper. So I would say reading this as much equivalent to reading the social text book.

Lesson 1: The World we live in

• Geographical area of world: 148 million sq kms (57 million sq miles)
• Total countries : 193
• Biggest Russia (17.08 million sq km or 6.593 million sq miles)
• Smallest Vatican (0.44 sq kms)
• Population – biggest : China (1.273 billion); 2nd largest India (1.03 billion)
• Population – least : Vatican (890 people)

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